diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 22a9a336e0d3..b24975a7f4a3 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7e3297dc280f88ec0c6619a895f3d449776f952e
+refs/heads/master: 8986d2f50e1a9ba63f64ccbf59181886aa7898c3
diff --git a/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-txx9.c b/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-txx9.c
index 795cb8fb0d74..b5fc4eb412d2 100644
--- a/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-txx9.c
+++ b/trunk/arch/mips/kernel/cevt-txx9.c
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ void __init txx9_tmr_init(unsigned long baseaddr)
 	struct txx9_tmr_reg __iomem *tmrptr;
 
 	tmrptr = ioremap(baseaddr, sizeof(struct txx9_tmr_reg));
+	/* Start once to make CounterResetEnable effective */
+	__raw_writel(TXx9_TMTCR_CRE | TXx9_TMTCR_TCE, &tmrptr->tcr);
+	/* Stop and reset the counter */
 	__raw_writel(TXx9_TMTCR_CRE, &tmrptr->tcr);
 	__raw_writel(0, &tmrptr->tisr);
 	__raw_writel(0xffffffff, &tmrptr->cpra);